Getting started with React Native

Published: Thu Apr 23 2015

In a previous post I showed how to use React to create both client side and server side web components. In this post I will demonstrate how to use React Native to create an IOS application.

Obviously web and IOS are completely different runtime environments, but since React acts as a layer of abstraction, it is able to bridge the gap between different technologies. This abstraction is key to cross platform development since it allows us to map React to any supported platform.

Here are the required steps:

Use npm to download the React tools and bootstrap your application by running the below commands: